Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wally Cook, who had come in to pitch extremely well for Harvard in the sixth, was the victim of bad luck when the marines got two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth. The lights came on, and the game progressed until finally in the thirteenth Davis doubled, sending in A1 Martin with the winning...
...week long, Khrushchev took the line that the only German-in fact, the only Westerner-with whom the Soviet Union really had any quarrel was Bonn's steely old Chancellor Adenauer. Chief victim of this gambit was Erich Ollenhauer, colorless leader of West Germany's Social Democratic opposition, who incautiously accepted an invitation to go and talk with Khrushchev in East Berlin, so long as no Communist East Germans were present. (Socialist Mayor Brandt, cagier than his party boss, coldly refused a similar invitation.) Ollenhauer emerged from his two-hour talk with Nikita with the announced conviction that...
Lemp fired four torpedoes. One hit. It took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
Robert Stevens, the victim, was crossing a one-way thoroughfare near the Statler Hotel when Barber struck him, police said. According to their report, Barber was going in the wrong direction...
...journeyings Author Sack, 30, visited the Middle European principality of Liechtenstein, where he was the near-victim of an explosion in a salami-skin factory; learned in Sharja on the Arabian peninsula that the selling price of a slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin...